Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Lennon

I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.

John Lennon

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

John Kitzhaber

I understand that I have become a liability to the very institutions and policies to which I have dedicated my career and, indeed, my entire adult life.

John Barth

Though life's tuition is always ruinous, inexorably we learn.

John Banville

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

John Banville

That's one of the many things I hate about life, that it's a hideously cliched business.

Jimmy Carr

I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.

Jimmy Buffett

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

Jim Rohn

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Jim Rohn

Any day we wish we can discipline ourselves to change it all. Any day we wish; we can open the book that will open our mind to new knowledge. Any day we wish; we can start a new activity. Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change. We can do it immediately, or next week, or next month, or next year.

Jim Rohn

A few years ago I lost one of my dearest friends. He died at age 53 - heart attack. David is gone, but he was one of my very special friends. I used to say of David that if I was stuck in a foreign jail somewhere accused unduly and if they would allow me one phone call, I would call David. Why? He would come and get me. That's a friend. Somebody who would come and get you.

Jim Rohn

Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change.

Jim Rohn

Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Jim Rohn

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

Jim Rohn

I wish for you a life of wealth, health and happiness; a life in which you give to yourself the gift of patience, the virtue of reason, the value of knowledge, and the influence of faith in your own ability to dream about and achieve worthy rewards.

Jim Rohn

I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change

Jim Rohn

A life worth living is a life worth recording.

Jim Rohn

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Jim Rohn

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Jim Rohn

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

Jim Rohn

Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.

Jim Rohn

Often, the most extraordinary opportunities are hidden among the seemingly insignificant events of life. If we do not pay attention to these events, we can easily miss the opportunities.

Jim Rohn

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

George Matthew Adams

Everyone knows that weeds eat out the life of the garden and of the productive fields. It's like that in the building and developing of character. No one knows our own faults and tendencies better than we do ourselves, so that it is up to each one of us to keep the weeds out, and to keep all growth vigorous and fruitful.

George Matthew Adams

This world and life of ours are filled with inequalities. The worst possible use to make of this fact, however, is to allow resentments to possess us. All of us have imagined limitations, but we have also the privilege of pushing them aside, and spreading our lives out! We never know any of our limitations until we put ourselves to the test. There are always "growing pains" working within us.

George Matthew Adams

It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted in fertile soil, spring up into deathless friendships, big deeds of worth, and a memory that will not soon fade out. We are all sowers of seeds-and let us never forget it!

George Matthew Adams

What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.

George Lucas

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.

George Lucas

There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.

George MacDonald

All love will, one day, meet with its return. All true love will, one day, behold its own image in the eyes of the beloved, and be humbly glad.

George MacDonald

In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow...

George MacDonald

Life and religion are one, or neither is any thing.